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msgodel parent
It's similar to the issue plan9 terminals have. As long as you have a CPU with an MMU and some RAM (which you need a fair amount of for the graphics anyway) you might as well just run the software locally. All the peripherals are relatively cheap.
MisterTea
> It's similar to the issue plan9 terminals have.

To be clear: Plan 9 is not limited to terminal-server setups. It can function just fine as a stand alone OS.

> As long as you have a CPU with an MMU and some RAM

Those weren't cheap at the time. If you read the Gnot terminal presentation (early Plan 9 terminal) it is stated that they were cheap enough so a user could have one at home and one at work. It also stated that some things could run locally like the text editor and compute intensive tasks like compiling could be exported to a big expensive CPU servers. These machines had a few megs of ram and a 68000 CPU and monochrome graphics. The CPU servers were Sun, DEC, SGI, etc, machines that users could certainly not afford one of, let alone two.

zozbot234
You don't need an MMU-capable CPU to render remote graphics. You don't even need much more RAM than a local framebuffer, which for low resolutions/color depths is very little RAM.

Proving this point, there are VNC client implementations that can run on MS-DOS machines.

msgodel OP
You probably do need it to run Xorg though. I'm unaware of an X server that can run on DOS.
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